Accent Training

One of the other major areas of improvement was the accent and diction of participants. We have people from different backgrounds and geographical places. They have their north Indian / south Indian / Gujarati / Marathi accent. Many a times the pronunciation of a word is wrong and a lot of times the other person […]

Meeting with Robin Sharma

Crossword Bookstores organized a book signing by Robin Sharma last Saturday at Kemps Corner, Mumbai. I attended the event and it was a wonderful experience. Robin Sharma shared about his life, the journey so far and some of his wisdom. He said every dream begins small. If somebody does not laugh at your dream, your […]

Creating the future

While doing the communications workshops, we did some amazing work. We actually created the future! Some people were afraid to speak in public. I discussed things with them and invited them to imagine what would be their experience just after finishing the presentation. What would be the feeling of the audience? I asked them to […]

Oral Communication: Elocution, Tips, Results

The first step we took was to ask people to speak for two minutes on a topic of their choice. They were given about two days to prepare for it. The topic could be any topic. Since we can’t do the workshop for everyone in the office in one go, we repeated the sessions for […]

Communication Workshops – Experiences and Learning

We carried out a series of workshops to improve communication skills of Magneteers recently. Many people had reservations about their public speaking abilities, some were not confident, some had a fear of English language and a few were weak in English grammar. I will be writing a series on this. The following are the 5 […]